From jim@uazu.net Wed Aug 15 13:43:27 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jim@uazu.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 15 Aug 2001 20:43:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 78305 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2001 20:43:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Aug 2001 20:43:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net) (194.217.242.88) by mta3 with SMTP; 15 Aug 2001 20:43:09 -0000 Received: from aguazul.demon.co.uk ([158.152.135.59] helo=tiger) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 15X7VL-0000ZK-0U for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:43:07 +0100 Received: from jim by tiger with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15X7Vl-0001x8-00 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:43:33 +0100 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:43:33 +0100 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban on UNIX vs. Windowssuggestions?) Message-ID: <20010815214333.A7323@uazu.net> References: <3B782724.3020904@reutershealth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:34:06AM -0700 From: Jim Peters James F. Carter wrote: > It would be best if all the good software for Windows could also run on > UNIX. (To really do this, check out "vmware". You need a legal copy of > Windows.) My preference for running Windows on top of Linux is Win4Lin - I haven't gone back to VMWare since buying it. Only certain versions of Windows are supported (I'm using Windows 98SE), but it really is easy and trouble-free, and it runs at close to full native speed (or faster!). DirectX is not supported, but nothing I run needs it, so no big deal. It also uses Linux directories to emulate the Windows filesystem, so you can access the files from both sides - mix Perl hacks with Windows applications - it's *much* easier (for me at least) to be able to manage the files from the Linux side. The Windows virtual machine also appears on the same machine IP address without all the bridging stuff from VMWare. http://www.netraverse.com/ Don't ask me how they achieved all this - it just works ! I hope this isn't too off-topic. Jim -- Jim Peters (_)/=\~/_(_) Uazú (_) /=\ ~/_ (_) jim@ (_) /=\ ~/_ (_) www. uazu.net (_) ____ /=\ ____ ~/_ ____ (_) uazu.net